Exam #3 Review Questions

The exams in all sections will be based on these questions and topics. Again: study the relevant texts, don't just memorize Qs & As. There will again be a glossary of names, and an extra credit opportunity: "Who is your favorite philosopher? Why?" OR, "Write two paragraphs on your favorite final report presentation." You can prepare your extra credit answer in advance.

Who did Peter Medawar, Nobel Prize winner for Medicine, say "is incomparably the greatest philosopher of science there has ever been?"

A: Karl Popper

 What two principles did Rawls base his theory of justice?
A. freedom and equality

What Philosopher was called a Nazi for defending euthanasia?

A: Singer

Which philosopher said that the reason we find tragedy valuable as an art form is that we regard it as a form of insight? 
A: Neill

The view that combines the accepting of modesty with the search for improvement is known as?                           

 A: Stoic Pragmatism

THE COMPUTER

2) According to Cottingham, should faith or praxis come first in the cultivation of spirituality?

PRAXIS

3) Who said if we can't talk seriously about the most important questions of ethics and religion, we should just stay silent?

LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN

 4) An imaginary situation designed to bring out our feelings, or intuitions, on a particular issue, is called a what?

THOUGHT EXPERIMENT

5) True or False: According to Stephen Law, architecture has a place in the realm of aesthetics.

FALSE (Alain de Botton claims this.)

Posted by Michael Sharber  (19/1)

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·        What is the key to living well according to Lachs?

o   control over yourself

·        Stephen Law believes that suffering is a form of evil? T/F

·        Who discussed the idea of good and evil in the world, in reference to the argument of God's existence?
 -Stephen Law

·        Which philosopher discussed the idea of computers thinking for themselves?

-Searle

·        Judith Thomson came up with thought experiments to test the Law of Double Effect. T/F

·        What term did Arendt use to describe ordinary people doing bad things?

-Banality of Evil

Posted by Matthew Anderson (19/2)

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1. What condition does Matravers have to consider something art?

-Be connected to the art world.

2.What is the main principle Cupitt uses to defend his viewpoint on the existence of God?

-Non-realism

3.True/False Grayling supports the idea of Intelligent Design.

-False.

4.What is speciesism?

-bias towards your own species 

5. True/False Someone who  is unsure about the existence of an afterlife and a spiritual world is considered an atheist. 

-False